History Coursework Assignment B Question 1a In what ways do Source A and B agree about the events in Sharpeville on the morning of 21st of March? Source A is written by the only journalist that was presented there that morning, Humphrey Tyler. He sayd that he was ‘driving behind a big grey police car and three Saracen armoured cars’, similary that in Source B, an english newspaper reported after Sharpeville massacre saying that ‘soon after noon about a dozen saracens were called’. In both Sources A and B large crowds were shouting. Also sources mentioned police.
This event caused thousands of Tutsis to migrate to Uganda because of rise of Hutu violence against Tutsi. Around 1990, Tutsi exiles know as the Rwandan Patriotic Front(RPF), attempted to invade Rwanda. The invasion is thwarted by the Rwandan army with the help of French and Belgium troops. The attempted invasion caused a civil war between the two ethnic groups for 3 to 4 year. During the civil war, Rwanda’s main export coffee goes through a recession
Every night American family saw graphic pictures of Zippo raids, bombings and killings. Almost every town and village in the America faced the problem of their young men being either killed or wounded in Vietnam * Others faced physiological problems such as post-traumatic stress * President Johnson ordered heavy air force bombing raids which led to deaths of thousands of Vietnamese civilians including women and children * More than 11 000 died in 1967 a further 16 500 died in 1968 ( American soldiers) * The My Lai massacre resulted in the murder of 397-504 civilians mainly women, children and the elderly. Many of the victims were raped and tortured * The horror of death maiming, burning, terror and unthinkable destruction of a small country on the evening news, coupled with the threat of the draft made it feel like nothing
According to FactMonster.com, 1963 was a year notable for unrest and civil rights protests. All across America, outrage was generated due to the media coverage that showed unfavorable police actions in Birmingham, Alabama towards protesters. Some police brutality that was seen was turning attack dogs and fire hoses on protesters. During these protests at Birmingham, Martin Luther King, Jr., was arrested. In addition to these aforementioned matters, further demonstrations culminated into the March on Washington.
Rioters began violence at the famous corner of Florence and Normandie where they threw beer cans at surrounding cars and attacked any passing people. Around the same time, protesters gathered and rallied around news stations like KTLA. Daryl Gates, the chief of the LAPD, originally claimed the police had the issue under control, but it progressed into the declaration of an official "State of Emergency." Two thousand National Guard troops are deployed to popular spots to prevent violence. Later that day, Gates announced that there were four thousand more National Guard members requested and intended to be deployed the next day.
PARCC Writing Throughout the history of the world there have been many protests like Rosa Parks, and how she defied against whites sitting in the front of the bus. Two pieces of writing that share the similar topic of protest are “The Crisis, No. 1” by Thomas Paine and an article on more than 50 people being arrested after the largest civil disobedience act ever against Walmart. Though they were written in different time periods they share the similar topic of rebellion and anger towards a group that goes against their morals. In the text that Paine wrote, his intentions were to gather those against British rule and persuaded those who are for Britain so that they can all protest against Britain’s excessive and unrightful power of raising
Mara B Felix AC1110103 EN 120 – English Composition Lesson 8 Assignment 4 2. Road Rage The article Road Rage explains how American’s attitudes changes once they are behind the staring wheel of a car. They become very irritated when the person in front of them is driving to slow or if someone cuts in from of them on the freeway. Thanks to this article, now I know that the number of road rage has increase rapidly. “Incidents of “road rage” were up 51% in the first half of the decade, according to a report from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety,” writes Andrew Ferguson in Road Rage (553).
Inspired by the successful revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, Syrian protesters have employed the use of tactics such as marches, hunger strikes, rioting, and vandalism, in a sustained campaign of civil resistance aimed at ending nearly five decades ofBa’athist rule. The uprising was described as "unprecedented" by several political commentators. As protests continued, the Syrian government began deploying tanks and snipers as a means to quell the uprising. Water and electricity have been shut off in particularly restive areas, and security forces have resorted to confiscating flour and food. The Syrian Army has besieged the cities of Daraa,Douma, Baniyas, Hama, Homs, Aleppo, Talkalakh, Idlib, Rastan, Jisr ash-Shughur, Deir ez-Zor, Zabadani and Latakia, among other towns.According to witness accounts, soldiers who have refused to open fire against civilians were summarily executed by the Syrian Army.
The current El Paso Police Department is a prime example. A recent slew of investigations by local news stations in the Sun City revealed several “corrupt” cops who had overstepped their boundaries, or had hidden behind their badge to commit crimes. And sometimes, that “thin blue line”, as one officer called it, can divide an entire community— or even a police force. “There will be corruption everywhere you go, but of course it depends on the city that you are in,” Officer Doe said, as he drove through the city. “We are human too.
B”, had been dropping bombs on nearby towns, Kurem, Iwakuni, Takuyama and had been using Lake Biwa north east of Hiroshima as a rendezvous point which lead to high traffic over the coast of Hiroshima making it difficult for Mr. Tanimoto to get a full nights sleep. To add to this Mr. Tanimoto was among many people who feared they were being spied upon, he had graduated in 1940 from Emory College in Atlanta Georgia, spoke excellent English, dressed in American cloths and he had corresponded with many American friends leading right up to the beginning of the war. The police had questioned him and several days before he had heard that an acquaintance, a well known man Mr. Tanaka, had been telling people that Mr. Tanimoto should not be trusted, and he grew increasingly uneasy. To compensate and show himself a good Japanese citizen, Mr. Tanimoto had taken on the chairmanship of his local tonarigumi, a Neighborhood Association, and had been helping organize air-raid defense for about twenty families. The people